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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 3h

❗ Reform GAIN from Labour

Yesterday's Lloyds and Corby Village (North Northamptonshire) council by-election result:

REF: 38.5% (+2.1)
LAB: 32.4% (-11.8)
GRN: 18.9% (+9.7)
LDEM: 5.8% (+1.5)
CON: 4.4% (-1.5)

+/- 2025

andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack

"All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3h

ChatGPT's guide to Winning At Work
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Climbing the corporate greasy pole, ChatGPT style: the Stephen Collins cartoon

If I tell you what you want to hear then you’ll think I’m a god!

www.theguardian.com

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 2h

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 1h

IDK, I'm not sure someone who supports American imperialism and wants to sell off state-owned utilities and natural resources (like oil) screams "peace". But what do I know? Also, this

Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 3h

Indeed he did, but then again, he's reneged on every promise he made. He's in Murdoch's pocket and always has been.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 7h

You can't stick out your chin and say "polls at this point mean nothing" when people post Labour polling at 17% if you were clucking, gloating, throwing up at Labour polling at 27% in early 2017, bucko.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 6h

Always ironic when Polly "Wrong about everything, always" Toynbee is hand-wringing in the Grauniad, as she stood as an SDP candidate in 1983 ensuring that Labour then lost what had been a fairly safe seat to Thatcher's Tories. Thatch couldn't have done it without ol' Poll!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

What happened to anyone who seriously threatened to reverse any part of the Thatcherite revolution? Who was it that enforced those penalties. There’s your answer, and there’s who is to blame.

The Guardian Y @theguardian.com
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Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? |
Martin Kettle

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Nate Higgins 🏳️‍🌈 @natehiggins.bsky.social · 18h

Tonight Newham Labour councillors voted unanimously to reject full divestment of Newham’s pension fund from complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

@newhamgreens.bsky.social and Newham Independents fought strongly but Labour blocked it.

We won’t stop - now we take the fight to the ballot box.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 17h

Great stuff. Would imagine it'll be a while until he gets a seat on the BBC again, and the tax-dodging billionaires who own the media are REALLY going to get after him now.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17h

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 22h

Keith had a couple of meetings with one of his managers over the summer

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 22h

It's bollocks. A lot of pubs, even in Liverpool city centre, close on Monday nights now because no-one goes out. Do these dickheads think people are going to start drinking until 2am on a schoolnight?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 22h

"Everybody has their price" news. Mind you, Jimmy Carr and Jack Whitehall have always been c*nts, so no surprise there really.

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Sad, but can't say it's a surprise, we've not been great this season. He will always be an absolute legend as a player though.

Paul Wellens: St Helens head coach departs after two years in role

St Helens announce head coach Paul Wellens is to depart the club following the recent conclusion of their 2025 season.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer thinks us having the only privatized water industry in the world is great, and everyone else is doing it wrong

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

Ain't capitalism great?

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

As it's #hillfortswednesday and I've finally managed to retrieve my summer holiday photos from my broken camera, here's Darren Camp in Ceredigion and a (very) distant view of Pen Dinas in Aberystwyth from the same spot

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Daniel Levy: "Netanyahu has reneged on these deals in the past & may well be looking for the first opportunity to be able to resume hostilities when he can in Gaza. In the meantime one should expect the destruction, displacement, killing in the West Bank will continue"

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David Ziggy Greene (Jam bookshop) @jambookshopuk.bsky.social · 2d

A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

...and Israeli bombing to recommence at 10.01am. Probably.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

@yarahawari.bsky.social : "Israel is notorious for breaking ceasefire deals.. Netanyahu says one thing to an international audience & something else to a domestic audience.. Israel is not a good faith actor.."